Marquess Of Salisbury Robert Quotes

1830 - 1903

English Conservative statesman.
He succeeded Disraeli as Leader of the Opposition,
and was subsequently Prime Minister (1885^6,1886^92,1895^1902), as
well as holding other posts. He was head of
government during the Boer War (1889^1902).

Marquess Of Salisbury Robert Of the Daily
Mail.The phrase recallsThackeray's Pendennis who started a newspaper
'by gentlemen for gentlemen'. Quoted in S J Taylor The Great Outsiders: Northcliffe, Rothermere and the
Daily Mail (1966), ch.2.